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Phishing scam attacks campus email accounts

Andy Williams   ||   Oct 19, 2009  ||   

Phishers are now after campus card information. At least one California institution, Fresno State, has reported that some student email accounts have come under attack, according to the school’s newspaper, The Collegian.

The fake email, purporting to be from the university, seeks a student’s Fresno State user ID and password. The university says it will never ask for personal identifying information via email and suggests any such scams be deleted.  

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